Can I call the police if I receive threatening text messages?

You can call the police if you receive threatening text messages.

1. If you can call the police after receiving the threatening text message, the public security organ will file a case according to the seriousness of the case. If the circumstances are minor, they shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than five hundred yuan. If the circumstances are serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention or public surveillance. Although there is no threat of sending text messages in the current criminal law, it is illegal to affect personal safety, and serious circumstances constitute a crime. Anyone who disturbs the normal life of others by sending insults, intimidation or other information can call the police in time, and the public security organ will impose public security punishment according to the specific situation.

Two. Criteria for filing the crime of language intimidation

There is no criminal law provision named after "intimidation crime" in China's criminal law, but there are actually other provisions that punish intimidation, that is, the crime of stirring up trouble in Article 293 of the Criminal Law. Therefore, we need to know the content of the filing standard of the crime of intimidation, and we can also refer to the content of the filing standard of the crime of stirring up trouble.

According to Article 37 of the Provisions of the Ministry of Public Security of the Supreme People's Procuratorate on the Standards for Filing and Prosecuting Criminal Cases under the Jurisdiction of Public Security Organs, anyone suspected of any of the following circumstances shall file a case for prosecution:

(a) beating others at will, causing physical injury to others, beating others at will with a weapon or having other bad circumstances;

(2) Chasing, intercepting or abusing others, which seriously affects the normal work, production and life of others, or causes others to be insane, commit suicide or have other bad circumstances;

(3) extortion or arbitrary destruction or occupation of public or private property worth more than 2,000 yuan, extortion or arbitrary destruction or occupation of public or private property for more than three times, or other serious circumstances;

(4) Causing serious disorder in public places.

legal ground

Article 42 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Public Security Administration Punishment stipulates that anyone who commits one of the following acts shall be detained for less than 5 days or fined for less than 500 yuan; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be detained for more than 5 days 10 days, and may also be fined up to 500 yuan:

(1) writing threatening letters or threatening the personal safety of others by other means;

(2) publicly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others;

(3) fabricating facts, falsely accusing and framing others, and attempting to subject others to criminal investigation or public security administration punishment;

(4) Threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses and their close relatives;

(5) sending obscene, insulting, intimidating or other information for many times to interfere with the normal life of others;

(six) voyeurism, sneak shots, eavesdropping, spreading the privacy of others.